Regular potato, with skin, cooked

The potato or potato is a versatile food in the kitchen due to the number of ways in which it can be prepared, it is multifunctional and the fourth most cultivated food worldwide. Its first cultivation records and where it came from is from the Andes mountain range in Peru, more than 10 thousand years ago by the Inca empire, and it spread worldwide due to the Spanish invasion in America, currently China is the world's leading producer. of this important food in the human diet. It is a very important food in the human diet because it is a tuber with a high energy content, rich in potassium, calcium, phosphorus and iron, as well as vitamin C, A, B and bioflavonoids, it has a high water content between 70 to 80 % and approximately 17% starch, it is one of the natural sources of carbohydrates par excellence.